The
ParthenonThe Parthenon was
constructed between 447-432 BCE. It was built to shelter the
gold and ivory statue of Athena. The building has eight
columns in the front and back and seventeen on the sides,
using approximately 13400 stones with the back room
sheltering the statue of Athena. In Greece the temples are
made to be viewed from the outside. An interesting feature
about the temple is that there are no straight lines and the
columns taper at the top making it look like they are
experiencing tension from the roof.

The Temple
of Olympian ZeusIn the 6th Century the
temple had begun to be built during the time when Pisistratus's son, Hippias reined. Then in 510 BC he was
over thrown and the temple did not finish until the Emperor
Hadrian reined in 131 AD. The Temple of Olympian Zeus is
known to be the largest temple in Greece. Inside the temple
there was a large statue of the god Zeus as well as the
Emperor Hadrian. After the temple was built the
Athenians honored Hadrian by building an arched gateway in
the northwest corner of the sanctuary in 131 CE. The temple Originally was built with 104 Corinthian columns
of which only 15 remain standing today.

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The AcropolisAcropolis is a word meaning
the "city by the edge" and the Acropolis in Athens is one of
the largest cities and most known of them all. The Acropolis
was posted up at the tallest hill that overviewed the
capitol city so it was easier to look for the enemy. It was
believed that the city was occupied by the Mycenaean
civilization going back to at least the 7th millennium BC.
Many tombs and temples were built in the Acropolis for
kings, heroes and gods that were related to Athens. By the
6th Century BC, the Acropolis had become a place for
sacrifice to the gods and the Panathenean games were very
popular. Then in the 5th Century during the Persian Wars,
the Acropolis was set to flames and all focus was on battle.
Through the centuries the Acropolis was used for a variety
of things by many religions and other invading countries and
because of the battles and invasions the Acropolis was
slowly being destroyed to what we see today as well as other
damages from natural disasters.

The Theater of DionysusThe Theater of Dionysus was
built out of stone into a natural slope of the Acropolis and
was the birthplace of the very first form of Greek tragedy
theater. The Theater was originally built for the god
Dionysus for the Greeks to honor the god in dance and song.
The theater has a full circular orchestra where the chorus
would stand to sing, dance and narrate the story, a skene
which was the stage for the performers, eisodos where the
audience would come in to find their seats as well as the
perfumers entrance and exit. Many of the Greek play writers
works were performed on this stage including Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes

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The National
Archeological MuseumThe Museum opened in 1891
and is housed in a two-story neo-classical building of the
19th century. Many of the artifacts in the collection are
from all over the city and many are from Thessaly, Cylcades,
the Island of Thira, and Myceane. The museum collection
contains over 60 rooms of exhibits from all over Greece
dating from Prehistoric times to the Byzantine period. Many
of the collection exhibts of sculpture, pottery, jewelry and
a bronze collection.

Tomb of the Unknown
SoldiersThe Tomb of Unknown Soldiers
is a monument for the fallen unknown soldiers that fought
their battles in Greece. Located in Syntagma Square, guards
called Evzones watch over the tomb and every day on each
hour the guards perform the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
changing of the guard. The Evzoneshave three different
outfits for summer and winter one specially for Sundays
where people from all over come to watch their ceremony at
11:00am.

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The Ancient AgoraThe Ancient Agora was the
heart of Athens. It was the focus of political, commercial,
administrative and social activity, the religious and
cultural centre. The area was used as a residential and
burial area as early as the Late Neolithic period in 3000
BCE. In the 6th century BCE the Agora became a public area
after being a city of no interruption though out its
history. After some serious damage made by the Persians in
480-79 BCE, the Romans in 89 BCE and by the Heruli in 267 CE
the city did some serious building. Then after the Slavic
invasion in 580 CE, it was gradually abandoned.

Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum is the oldest museum in Greece and
is housed in one of the few neoclassical building left in
Greece. The museum has 7 buildings that contribute to the
museum and has over 40,000 artifacts including figures,
images, plaster casts or wire, that go back to the early
Bronze Age, the Geometric and Archaic Period, the classical
era, the Byzantine Era or the folk art of Postâ€“Byzantine
Greece. The museum also has an exquisite Photograph Archive
Department that has over 300,000 negatives and around 30,000
prints available in the museum.

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